As crypto becomes lucrative daily it is also attracting back eggs and unethical hackers doing everything possible to rob others of their crypto money by all illegal means.

On Bitcointalk, there surfaced a post with link to a suspected fake version of the popular secured Ethereum wallet extention. Thus, we decided to dig deep and research further to confirm the genuinety of the post and its indeed turn out to be a fake version (our screenshots of the app live in Google chrome store explains things better below).

Important: If you had an account on BlackWallet do not attempt to login. Instead, please check you’re account balance through the official Stellar Account Viewer, found here,

In a statement sent out today by its founder open source online Stellar wallet Black Wallet has claimed to have been hacked. Posting on Reddit, user orbit84 posted that a hacker gained access to his hosting provider account and changed the DNS settings to his own hosted version of BlackWallet.

Most exchanges now makes it mandatory to have your 2FA authentication activated for added security and protection of unauthorized access to your fund on their platform but things can equally get out of hands when you lost your device or could no longer remember your secret key to reset the Two-Factor Authentication. This article will be of help to you.

Resetting Two-Factor Authentication

We have written a post previously as explained by one of the exchanges Binance and that could help.

According to researchers at the cyber security firm Trend Micro a malware called Digmine infects Facebook’s instant messenger to harness the CPU’s power to mine Monero. Monero is an altcoin that is based on an anonymous blockchain.

Digmine comes to the victim as a video file sent from someone in their friend’s list, making it appear legitimate. Hacker’s will also be able to gain access to the victim facebook profile and their list of friends in order to spread the malware further.

According to a report by Korean publication Yonhap, authorities at the Incheon District Prosecutors’ Office have indicted 21 individuals suspected of being associated with Mining Max LLC, a US-based firm, on charges of fraud and allegedly soliciting 270 billion won (approx. $250 million) from investors across the world for an Ethereum mining operation promising large returns.

If you haven’t heard the news yet, EtherDelta was subject to a phishing attack on its DNS server yesterday. A hacker compromised the EtherDelta website, supplanting it with a copycat version of the popular Ethereum exchange. When the dust settled, the culprit stole away with 305 ETH, valued at over $244,000, and bag-full of ERC20 tokens.

This makes Ether Delta the latest to join an infirmary of exchanges plagued by hacking attacks in 2017.

It also tries to protect you from being phished by checking a domain blacklist that is constantly being updated.

EAL will also show you a popup container (non-intrusive) detailing the ETH balance of an address, the number of transactions going OUT, and if the address is a smart contract – The RPC node is managed by https://quiknode.io, so mega-thanks to those guys!